Salaam Bombay! (Blu-ray) PG
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 8, 2015
- Originally Released: 1988
- Label: Kino Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Shafiz Syed | |
Performer: | Hansa Vithal, Chanda Sharma, Nana Patekar, Aneeta Kanwar & Raghubir Yadav | |
Directed by | Mira Nair | |
Edited by | Barry Alexander Brown | |
Screenplay by | Sooni Taraporevala | |
Cinematography by | Sandi Sissel | |
Story by | Mira Nair & Sooni Taraporevala | |
Produced by | Mira Nair |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1988 -
Palme d'Or: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Just as the visuals are unexpectedly delightful, so is the three- dimensional carving of the characters in what could be a cliche Third World hell.
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Philadelphia Daily News
Director Mira Nair, trained in America, is very much in control of her material, tells her story efficiently and has most of the cast, none of them real professionals, under total control.
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Variety
Salaam Bombay! is an enormously moving and powerful film about life for children in the slums of Bombay.
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Buffalo News
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Dispossession and despair are seldom portrayed with such force on-screen. Director Mira Nair has done a masterful job of underscoring a social problem that has repercussions far beyond the Third World.
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel
...Assured and passionate....Nair has a wonderful eye and a truly cinematic sense of story. She doesn't tell in words what the eye of her camera can say with more authority...
Los Angeles Times
Salaam Bombay! deserves a broad audience, not just to open American eyes to plights of hunger and homelessness abroad, but to open American minds to the vitality of a cinema without rim shots and happy endings.
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TIME Magazine
"The original Slumdog Millionaire"... Salaam Bombay! doesn't sweeten its depiction of poverty with feelgood fantasy, but Nair does nevertheless convey the energy and vitality that here co-exists with extreme deprivation.
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Movie Talk
Product Description:
Mira Nair's first feature was an acclaimed drama depicting the desperate lives of homeless children in one of India's poorest cities. Krishna is a 10-year-old country boy forced to live on his own in the streets of Bombay after his family tosses him out. While he hopes to earn 500 rupees for his mother and return home, the all-consuming job of staying alive quickly makes that dream an unreality. He develops the street-smarts needed to survive in the seedy world of prostitutes, drug addicts, thieves, and other homeless children, but the harrowing experience takes an extremely heavy emotional toll on him. Although Krishna keeps trying to raise the money to return home, it is, in the end, a hopeless task.